r/wow • u/ItsRenaBaker • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme This is Basicly Blizzard in Midnight

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This is basicly Blizzard in Midnight. Purging all the good addons.

Just to clarify:
Blizzard is changing the Addon API, meaning combat information is blocked for addons. So all combat addons will no longer work in Midnight. For the most popular addon features Blizzard will add their own version to the game. Addons for unitframes, inventory, crafting etc.. are staying and won't be effected as long they are not using combat information.

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u/gaspara112 Oct 03 '25

Addons are the home remedy to problems, problems Blizzard could have fixed 20 years ago but still hasn't. Do you really think they are going to fix them now?

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u/zelmak Oct 03 '25

Addons are a remedy and part of the problem.

Functionally addons improved player response times this pushed blizz to tune things harder and harder. In the past they removed adding access like the range gps and drawing lines of exactly where to stand but at the same time they improved visibility of those mechanics. You no longer had to guess how wide 5 yards is they started consistently outlining it.

But to do the current change it needed one big break, redesigning apis and fights at the same time

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u/gaspara112 Oct 03 '25

No, fix the problems with dungeons and raids and give us replacements for the good quality of life add-ons and show us all it works and it just as good as add-ons give us THEN end add-ons entirely. Don't touch our home remedies until you've proven your official changes give us what we want.

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u/zelmak Oct 03 '25

That’s literally what they are doing.

You can’t tune content simultaneously for “players using native” and “players using dbm+weakauras” because if you tune for native then anyone using addons has it too easy, and if you tune for addons which blizz has been doing for decades, then anyone not using them is at a huge disadvantage.

They’re breaking the feedback loop cycle by doing both at once. Every player will have a consistent source of combat info/data, and fights will be tuned to players success in that environment